What Will Work Be Like In 2020?
I recently caught up with Ryan Patel, VP of Global Real Estate & Business Development at Pinkberry, one of the world’s fastest-growing retail brands. An expert in growing both domestic and...
View ArticleMake Your Company a Magnet for Millennials
As millennials flood the workforce, companies are seeing a massive drop in employee engagement — the lowest it’s been in the past eight years. Why? Perhaps because 21st century employees are different...
View Article4 Measurement Strategies That Create the Right Incentives for Learning
Why measure learning? The easy answer is to track learner progress. The subtler, more powerful answer is to drive learner behavior. Dan Ariely, behavioral scientist and best-selling author of...
View ArticleWhy Walt Whitman’s Secret Writings on Training Are More Relevant than Ever
While Walt Whitman was writing Leaves of Grass—perhaps the most important book of poetry in American history—he was producing an advice column on the side under the pen name Mose Velser. Whitman’s...
View ArticleA Better Way to Prepare Your Workforce for Change and Transformation
I recently attended and spoke at the Change and Transformation conference in NYC, a fantastic event in which practitioners from leading companies like IBM, Cisco, and GE shared their best practices on...
View ArticleHow to Change Behaviors With Microlearning
Around 2,300 years ago, Aristotle was traveling the Ancient Greek equivalent of the conference circuit. His lectures, later collected as the Nicomachean Ethics, included a key insight about human...
View ArticleWhat It Really Means to Be Learner-First
Product designers talk with users to understand their motivations, perceptions, and actions before they begin designing products. Yet in the world of training and development, learners often aren’t...
View ArticleHarness the Power of Aha! Moments to Help Your Team Learn
The haystack was important because the cloth ripped. Do you get it? Maybe if I added a picture. The haystack was important because the cloth ripped. Do you get it now? Think about it a moment before...
View Article7 Learning Science Principles Behind the New Grovo
Two weeks ago, Grovo released a redesigned and greatly expanded version of its microlearning platform. Our product development process was largely an exercise in listening, not only to the challenges,...
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